Behold! It’s floppy, it’s flexi, it’s free to anyone who wants to wander in to our Gories / Spits / Oh Sees / Kid Congo / Cheap Time / Total Slacker show tonight at Emo’s in Austin and it’s got two-minutes-and-then-some of thee mighty Reigning Sound playing live at Alex’s Bar in your very own [...]

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Well, we love Roky Erickson. Can’t explain it, don’t care to anyway. Roky’s rok is the rokinest rok that ever rok-ed, and if you got to wake up, make sure to wake up to rok-n-roll! Anyway—of course this means we want everyone to go see him next week! Thanks to the beautiful people at Goldenvoice, [...]

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Mark Lanegan can back up the best of ‘em or belt it out on his own, and his new album Blues Funeral is creeping over the horizon on its way to an early February release. He’ll be performing with the Mark Lanegan Band at the Echoplex on February 9 and you can get some tickets [...]

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Here at L.A. RECORD we like to wake up on groggy mornings with a big bowl of FUZZ, and that’s exactly what Danny Holloway specializes in. He’s one of the toppest DJs in L.A., and one of the residents at the occasional FUZZ night, in which you will listen as the other toppest DJs in [...]

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Download: CB Brand x Big Freak Mixtape [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The band CB Brand DJs Big Freak on Monday and will be playing their first Troubadour show with Vetiver and Waters on Wednesday, so they have made this mixtape to get you ready for their classically cracked ’70s country—fans of Townes [...]

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True Widow tumbled out from the heart of Texas with a knack for the reverberatory arts. Their ‘stonegaze’ sound, as some call it, sounds a bit like a cool soothing rockslide. They will play the New Weird America Fest this Saturday at Nomad. Win tickets here! This interview by Matt Dupree.

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With Grass Widow, it could quite possibly be love at first listen. That is, if you’re into a Kinks-meets-Neo Boys inspired sort of thing. Which you should be. Hannah, Lily, and Raven talk to us about not being dudes, their thrift store audio collages, and an obsessive-compulsive desire to take pictures of everything they bring on tour. They play tonight at Psycho Beach Party. This interview by Chelsea Green.

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Find yourself doing the Safety Dance to this song as you prepare for the weekend. Around 2:18, it gets deliciously weird with a sound reminiscent of the Aliens from Toy Story. Holy Ghost‘s debut on DFA Records drops on April 5. MP3: Holy Ghost “Do It Again” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] —Daiana [...]

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Today is the day of ticket giveaways! We’re giving away a pair of tickets to Magical Properties at House Of Blues this Saturday! Email us at rsvp@larecord.com for a chance to win.

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photography by piper ferguson L.A. RECORD + Royal Elastics + Pigeon John are giving you a chance to win a pair of Royal Elastics shoes! Pigeon John is a L.A.-based rapper with four albums under his belt, with his latest Dragon Slayerout now on Quannum Projects. To enter, tweet @RoyalElastics @dothepigeon @larecord with a photo of a baby pigeon!

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